Hair-crimper.



P. HEIM.

HAIR CRIMPER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 8, 191a.

Patented Mar. 24, 1914.

PETER HEIM, OF CULLMAN, ALABAMA.

HAIR-CRIMPER. y

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 24, 1914.

Application filed August 8, 1913. Serial No. 783,786.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, PETER HEIM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cullman, in the county of Cullman and State of Alabama, have invented newv and useful Imrovements in Hair-Crimpers, of which the ollowing is a specification.

The invention relates to hair curling devices, and has for an object to provide a simple and efficient device for readily crimping or curling the hair.

The invention embodies, among other features, a device of simple construction, which includes a frame and a plurality of independent swinging crimping prongs carried by the frame, with means for independently securing the prongs in gripping or locked position on the frame.

In the further disclosure of the invention reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, constituting a part of this specification, in which similar characters of ref erence denote corresponding parts in all the views, and in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the hair crimper, showing the prongs in open position; Fig. 2 is a plan view showing the prongs in closed position; and Fig. 3 is a fragmentary enlarged vertical sectional View showing the manner of securing the free ends of the prongs in closed and locked position on the frame.

Referring more particularly to the views, I provide a substantially rectangular frame 10 preferably formed of a single piece of material and bent to provide parallel sides 11, with the medial portion of the piece of material bent to provide a plurality of spaced loops 12, portions. of each of which provide a looped intermediate spring-like clamping member 13. The free ends 14 of the piece of material constituting the frame 10 are arranged to provide bearings 15, car rying a transversely extending pin 16 on which is mounted to swing corrugated resilient prongs 17, spaced apart at the inner ends by a suitable washer 18 encircling thepin 16 and interposed between the inner ends of the prongs.

In the use of the device disclosed the prongs are first moved into an extended position, as shown in Fig. 1, after which the hair is placed between and around the prongs. The prongs are then swung into a folded position, thus locking the device to the clamping the hair and which has been curled and crlmped around the prongs in a manner whlch will permit the hair to curl o'r crim and assume a definite shape when held be- :ween and around the prongs a sufficient Now referring to Fig. 3, it should be partlcularly noted that by providing the loops 12 and forming with portions of the loops member 13 and which is of a U-shape, each of the prongs is independently clamped at its free end and the prongs are at all tnnes spaced apart and extend throughoutthe length of the frame with their longitudinal axes in parallel relation. It should be further noted that the extremities of the loops 12 each provide a bearing surface 19 and that both sides of the clamping member 13 provide opposed bearing surfaces 20, with the bearing surfaces 20 lying above and beyond the bearing surfaces 19 so that when the prongs are received in the loops and lie between the respective bearing surfaces 19 and 20, the loops 12 at the bearing surfaces 19 will press inwardly on the prongs and clamp the same rigidly relatively to the bearing surfaces 20 formed on the clamping member 13 and which bearing surfaces lie out of the the loops. Therefore, with a structure such as described the prongs 17 will not only be relatively parallel throughout their length but will also have their free ends independently clamped tothe frame so that one of the prongs can be released from the frame without touching the other prong.

I am aware that devices similar to my device have been patented heretofore, but in these other devices only a single loop is employed on the frame to clampingly engage oth prongs, thus providing a clamping actlon between the prongs and whereby the inner face of one prong engages the inner face of the other. This construction embodies many faulty features in that in the first instance the prongs do not extend relatively parallel throughout their length, and secondly, one prong exerts a clamping action on the other and when one prong is released the other must be disturbed or released from the frame. Furthermore, loops 12 and the clamping member 13 interposed between the loops and formed thereby, as 1n my device, a more rigid clampin action is assured and the free ends 0 the plane of the bearing surfaces of by providing two prongs are independently held in clamping engagement with the frame and do not engage each other.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

As a new article of manufacture, a hair curler consisting of a frame formed of a single piece of material having parallel sides and an end portion curved to provide adj acent loops, with adjacent sides of the said loops forming a substantially U -shaped clamping member, and prongs mounted to swing on the other end of the frame and extending lengthwise thereto, with the free ends of the prongs adapted for clamping en- 15 gagement with the said loops and having portions thereof engaging the portions of the U-shaped clamping member formed by 4 the adj acent sides of the loops.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature 2c in presence of two witnesses.

PETER HEIM Witnesses:

J. B. CAssnLs, WM. BRADFORD. 

